DO you know which state has the most ski areas?

The answer is New York. But somehow New York’s 44 ski areas attract a sliver of the attention given mountains elsewhere. And on any given winter weekend, the surge of skiers and snowboarders on the Eastern Seaboard who point their cars north toward New England and speed past New York’s ski areas is staggering.

There’s nothing wrong with those New England resorts. Many are icons, and deserve to be. But if you live in the East, especially in and around New York City, that’s no reason to overlook slopes that are as close, if not closer. If the average ski family makes three trips a season, why make all three to New England? And if you’re traveling East, New York’s areas will reward a close look.

It’s not as if New York’s resorts are considered inferior. Among the most devoted skiers and snowboarders, New York’s winter resorts are far from a secret. In Ski magazine’s most recent annual ranking of Eastern ski resorts, Whiteface Mountain outside Lake Placid came in No. 3 and Holiday Valley in Ellicottville was No. 5. Only two New England resorts, Smuggler’s Notch at No. 2 and Stowe at No. 4 (both in Vermont), were ranked higher.

And it’s not as if New York’s ski areas lacked cachet or credentials. Whiteface was host to the 1980 Winter Olympics races and Lake Placid was home to both the 1980 and 1932 Winter Olympics. Whiteface has the largest vertical drop (3,430 feet) of any resort east of the Rockies, yet it attracts about 200,000 skier visits annually, or roughly a fourth the number who visit the largest New England resorts.

How is that possible?

“People mention skiing in Vermont and everyone thinks of white church steeples, village greens and a romantic country atmosphere,” said Sandy Caligiore, communications director for the state-run Olympic Regional Development Authority, which manages Whiteface (www.whiteface.com) and Gore Mountain (www.goremountain.com), another large ski area outside Lake George.

“When someone says New York, they think of Manhattan and skyscrapers. Someone says New York skiing and somebody else thinks:

How good can that be? But it’s a big state. It’s mostly country villages and big mountains.”

Having grown up in New England, and having lived the last 20 years in New York, I’ve been in a good position to hear just about every reason, or excuse, for overlooking New York’s abundance of snowy trails.

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